The value of initial public offerings in the US and Europe has fallen 90 per cent this year as the Ukraine war and rising inflation and interest rates have forced businesses to shelve plans to go public.
Just 157 companies raised a total of $17.9bn in the first five months of 2022, compared with 628 that raised $192bn in the same period last year, according to data from Dealogic.
Globally, the value of IPOs dropped 71 per cent — from $283bn to $81bn — in the period and the number of listings fell from 1,237 to 596.
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